Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Overture & Orchestral Songs

Featuring

Howard Griffiths
Ingeborg Danz
Oliver Triendl
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Dora Pejačević

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Compositional Technique

Despite living in an era of radical musical upheavals, Pejačević remained fundamentally attached to tradition and never abandoned tonality, though she used harmonic audacities in her mature years.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pejačević expanded her musical knowledge through self-instruction and contacts with leading intellectuals and artists like Karl Kraus and Rainer Maria Rilke, who inspired her choice of poetry for vocal works.

Composer Biography

Dora Pejačević, born in 1885, was the daughter of Count Theodor Pejačević, who later became the Croatian ban (governor), and Hungarian Countess Lilla Vay de Vaya.

Critical Reception

Arnold Schoenberg, a renowned composer, praised Pejačević's composition Verwandlung but expressed reservations about a woman being a composer.

Composition History

Pejačević's G-Minor Piano Concerto, op. 33, composed in 1913, was the first Croatian work in this genre.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pejačević's works represent the Croatian Modern in music, constantly seeking new veins of expression and developing an independent musical idiom.

Composer Biography

Pejačević received her early education and musical training in the cultivated surroundings of her family's palace in Našice, Slavonia, under an English governess.